“No sabía lo que estaba haciendo y porque lo hacía, si no quería.
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Así eran las cosas, se suponía que yo no era más que la inspiración para la gran idea de algún hombre.
Pues a la mierda con eso.
Por eso empecé a escribir mis propias canciones.()No tenía el más mínimo interés en se la musa de alguien.
No soy una musa.
Soy ese alguien.
Fin de la maldita historia.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“CHEMISTRY IS CHANGE, she wrote.
Whenever you start doubting yourself, she said, turning back to the audience, whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we’re chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others’ opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your town slide dormant, ladies. Design your own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what you will change. And then get started.”
Source: Lessons in Chemistry
“Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The consequences of treating
generations of women as economically illiterate are that women have been unable to educate their daughters about money, women have been shut out
from one of the main sources of power in capitalist societies (money), and few girls have grown up believing that finance is a career for them.”
Source: Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It
“What fundamentally distinguishes torture, understood in human rights terms, from the events these women have described is that torture is done to men as well as to women. Or, more precisely, when what usually happens to women as these women have described it happens to men, which it sometimes does, women's experience is the template for it, so those men, too, are ignored as women are. When the abuse is sexual or intimate, especially when it is sexual and inflicted by an intimate, it is gendered, hence not considered a human rights violation.”
Source: Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
“Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me— so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins. Another meeting”
Source: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
“Our bodies are everything. They are the tools our mothers and their mothers used to end wars. Women have used their bodies to demand the right to vote, the right to work, the right to birth control, the right to safe working conditions, the right to choose, the right to equal funding for sports and education, and the right to say NO. Our bodies are agents of change.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“The potential we squander by picking our bodies to pieces is catastrophic.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“Each step and every healthy bite takes us closer to well-being, closer to raw, unrepentant liberty at home, at work, in our neighborhoods, and within the confines of our own minds.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“WE CAN’T BE GOOD CARETAKERS, LEADERS, OR MENTORS FOR EACH OTHER IF WE CAN’T BREATHE.”